Richard Smith will "retire" as chairman of the board and CEO effective Tuesday, according to a statement from the company's board. Mark Feidler, a board member, has been appointed as nonexecutive ...

The former chairman and CEO of Equifax says the company was entrusted with personal information of 140 million Americans and "we let them down" as human error and ...

Hearing about a major data breach like Equifax can leave you feeling exposed and unsure about your financial safety. It’s ...

Equifax released updated information on its massive 2017 data breach in a news post this week. The company said it has identified another 2.4 million U.S. consumers whose data it now believes to have ...

After the year Equifax has had, you’d think the Atlanta-based credit-reporting agency would have mastered its messaging by now, but a stunning admission offered recently by a top executive illustrates ...

NEW YORK -- Equifax, one of the three main credit reporting companies, said this week that a major data breach exposed Social Security numbers and other important information of millions of people.

WASHINGTON — The company at the center of the biggest breach of personal information just signed a contract with the federal government to provide, well, personal information. The Internal Revenue ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Credit-reporting company Equifax Inc will pay up to $700 million to settle claims it broke the law during a massive 2017 data breach and to repay harmed consumers, in a landmark ...

Every major data breach puts millions of people at risk of fraudulent accounts opened in their names, yet federal law gives consumers a free tool that can block most of those attempts within a single ...

(Reuters) - Equifax Inc said on Tuesday that Chief Executive Richard Smith would leave the company and forgo this year's bonus as criticism mounts over a massive cyber attack that has plunged the ...